Wedded to the Game:The Real Lives of NFL Women by Shannon O’Toole
“Wedded to the Game [is] a book that comes as a real eye-opener. . . . [This] is not a book about John Morton and Shannon O’Toole. Where their experience is illustrative O’Toole mentions it, but there’s no breast-beating about unfair treatment or bad breaks or anything else. She’s really more interested in what’s happened to other players’ wives, and some of them prove interesting indeed. . . . There’s much more about it . . . in this intelligent, thoughtful book.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post (4/11/06)
“This book offers an insider’s glimpse of life in the NFL from a unique perspective: that of the players’ and coaches’ wives. . . . Because sociologist O’Toole is herself the wife of an ex-NFL player and coach, she is able to provide both a pragmatic and an intellectual view of NFL culture in her well-organized and accessible text.”—Library Journal (3/1/06)
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